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New comment by xfeeefeee in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

xfeeefeee — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:45:36 +0000

I started doing this with my cat. It's easy to try to explain away the underlying thought processes as coincidental association, and some of that is certainly true, but experiencing it first hand with a cat you know well is certainly different. My cat presses a button for his name when he wants attentions, buttons for outside, food, water. A button for YouTube (the startup sound), since he likes watching other cats and critter videos and nature documentaries on there. I was working in the other room during a stormy day and he was watching some nature video when I heard him repeatedly pressing the YouTube button and his name. But he was already watching it? When I went out there, I saw there was a video playing with a cat that looked almost exactly like him on the screen. He seemed extremely interested. Did he think it was him? Or was he just calling attention that it looked like him and wanted to tell me? Either way, never saw that behavior before or after.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

xfeeefeee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:12:46 +0000

That's a pretty wide brush you are painting with there

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)"

xfeeefeee — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:50:45 +0000

Really cool to see this here. I always loved these in movies. There are a bunch of really interesting artists making use of ink ink liquid, oils, chemical reactions etc that create beautiful abstract pieces. Fitting for HN, Roman De Giuli even creates his own machines. Check out Emitter https://youtu.be/VMd608zCEWc

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

xfeeefeee — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:22:29 +0000

Oh hey this is exactly why I made node-windows-readdir-fast - especially with the way node works, this makes reading filenames and length and times around 50x faster

https://github.com/xfeeefeee/node-windows-readdir-fast https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-windows-readdir-fast

Windows only of course, but the concept is sound. Was also fun benchmarking to find out that parsing a binary stream was faster than creating a ton of objects through the node api (or json deserialization)

New comment by xfeeefeee in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:16:06 +0000

Over five years of paid SoundCloud here, I thought something was wrong with my setup. If this continues I'll have to cancel, basically. What a pain.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages"

xfeeefeee — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:58:14 +0000

On a personal project I've decided to do the opposite and every commit message is meow or mlem or hisssss or purrrr etc

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Meta Segment Anything Model 3"

xfeeefeee — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:50:16 +0000

I can't wait until it is easy to rotoscope / greenscreen / mask this stuff out accessibly for videos. I had tried Runway ML but it was... lacking, and the webui for fixing parts of it had similar issues.

I'm curious how this works for hair and transparent/translucent things. Probably not the best, but does not seem to be mentioned anywhere? Presumably it's just a straight line or vector rather than alpha etc?

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Designing a Language (2017)"

xfeeefeee — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:51:50 +0000

For those unaware, Raku is the evolution of Perl 6, basically. It's honestly a beautiful and seductive language. At the same time it terrifies me.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Show HN: The Shape of YouTube"

xfeeefeee — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:33:50 +0000

I'm having a hard time understanding what exactly the graphs are showing. Is it just average pixel color per frame?

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Show HN: Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok)"

xfeeefeee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:21:01 +0000

Does this analyze the video itself with AI or does it just use the text / description and other metadata? Would love to know more details on how that works

New comment by xfeeefeee in "[dead]"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:58:59 +0000

this is hilarious. more context is here: https://x.com/mahlenr/status/1964524587254964580

hopefully the layers of satire here are not lost

New comment by xfeeefeee in "The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful"

xfeeefeee — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:21:34 +0000

> Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species.

Well we could always be pets. That wouldn't be so bad.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:36:58 +0000

I recently discovered a static site generator called Astro, which supports many syntaxes but the .astro is a nice mix of TypeScript and JSX-like syntax. Content can use MDX which is like Markdown but with {JSX} style markup for variables and etc. The static components are used very similar to React, with familiar import statements and patterns. It is extremely easy to pick up. Best of all, it has plugins to support all sorts of other interactivity, so you can create interactive 'islands' of content using React or Preact or SolidJS or Vue etc. That way you have most of your content statically generated, and then the dynamic parts can be done from the client side.

Best of all, if you use simple unchanged files for other dynamic stuff like JSON etc, you can just generate those on build and serve those files in the host directly as the 'response' to a simple REST request, which is sometimes overlooked despite being the most fundamental form of a REST API.

https://astro.build/

I came across this after researching various options for a website that had, mostly for my own entertainment, restrictions on wanting to be mostly statically generated but customizable easily without learning a lot of new syntax / etc, something JSX-like with Markdown support etc, and MDX was an immediate find - and astro was the easiest SSG I found for it after trying with 11ty and several others. Actually felt like a delight playing with it.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors"

xfeeefeee — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:53:32 +0000

I create music videos which can be provocative, though not necessarily pornographic, and this kind of thing really bothers me since I've run into similar problems even just with hosting and donations. Thankfully, I don't try to make this anything more than a creative outlet, so I don't have to worry about taking payments, and I'm happy enough that any expenses are at least covered by a few donations. But it concerns me that it is not an option for others who might find themselves in similar gray areas.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "I just want to code (2023)"

xfeeefeee — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:36:27 +0000

I've always thought of myself as a struggling artist and musician first, code being one of many avenues to express myself, and also to pay the bills until I got into more managerial roles, and now I get to use it more creatively or in pursuit of creative endeavors rather than during work time, and it is incredibly liberating.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:38:00 +0000

I quoted the synopsis from the readme thinking it would be helpful.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:25:59 +0000

All credit should go to Lukas https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi

I was sharing this here since I thought it was a great write up, but did not intend to pass it off as my own!

There is certainly always a good amount of push and pull, though my personal concern as a contributor to yt-dlp under another alias is more about archival of the underlying media rather than automating things like comments.

YouTube also uses an interesting scheme for authenticating requests for media as well which required implementing a very basic JavaScript interpreter within Python for yt-dlp too. I expect this kind of thing to continue to become even more common and complicated.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:18:58 +0000

> It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post. HN takes that text and turns it into a comment.

Yeah, this is exactly what happened, but I decided to keep it rather than delete and filled it out more with the synopsis from the repo.

Looking back at it, it really does look like an AI bulleted summary. I probably should have noted that the last part was indeed a quotation.

New comment by xfeeefeee in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

xfeeefeee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:59:03 +0000

The fascinating process of reverse engineering this VM is detailed here.

TikTok uses a custom virtual machine (VM) as part of its obfuscation and security layers. This project includes tools to:

Deobfuscate webmssdk.js that has the virtual machine.

Decompile TikTok’s virtual machine instructions into readable form.

Script Inject Replace webmssdk.js with the deobfuscated VM injector.

Sign URLs Generate signed URLs which can be used to perform auth-based requests eg. Post comments.

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

xfeeefeee — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43747921

Points: 412

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